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Postcardy stuff is going on

by Lotte on December 5, 2011 at 9:42 pm

After some tweaking of the postcard images to make them printer-friendly, the lovely workers’ co-op printing folk Footprint in Leeds have all the images and hopefully will be printing up my postcards really soon.

Who knew postcards could bleed, eh? I’ve gone for the white border option; I think they’ll look smarter like that.

ETA: They’re en route! They should arrive on Wednesday morning. Eeeeee!

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Poly in Postcards – thank you.

by Lotte on November 23, 2011 at 5:08 pm

The Poly in Postcards campaign is now officially over, and I am really pleased with how it went. I raised enough to get my minimum amount of postcards printed, with which I am totally happy. We got to $199 out of the probably-too-ambitious target of $500, but it is definitely enough to get packs of postcards to everyone who helped out, and have a few left over to sell to anyone who wants some in the future.

Thank you to everyone who’s helped out!

The funding comes through from IndieGoGo on Friday, and I will place the order with my lovely co-op printer folk in Leeds on Saturday. I’m not sure how long they’ll take, but when they arrive I will take millions of photos and post them all here on the blog in full size that takes ages to load, because I will love them THAT MUCH. And then I will make postcards of those photos and run a fundraising campaign to get them printed.

YEAH.

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A RANT!

by Lotte on November 22, 2011 at 7:35 pm

I really hate bloggers and webcomic artists that just go on about stuff that’s totally unrelated to the actual subject of their website, you know? People have cooking blogs and then take time out to whinge about Twilight or politics or just the stupid stuff that they’re doing in their own lives. I’m doing this ridiculous and impossible scavenger hunt, with challenges like “take a photo of someone wearing a wedding dress while floating in the Dead Sea” (29 points), or “you know how cats and dogs shed? Cover someone completely in pet hair. The only thing visible is the person’s eyes. Nothing but hair and eyes. You may not shave or harm any animals acquiring this item” (44 points), and there’s no way I’m going to be able to do those because I’m broke and allergic. I’ve even bought bacon to make a bacon dress (43 points) even though I’m vegan, but you don’t hear me complaining about that on my polyamory/LGBT-related webcomic, do you?

Those off-topic bastards.

PS: GISHWHES, item #219: Create a website that exposes your own hypocrisy. (26 points)

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Postcard update

by Lotte on November 17, 2011 at 3:37 pm

Look, no annoying address guide lines!

For some reason the IndieGoGo site won’t let me upload this, but at least you guys can see. :) There’s what the back of the postcards is going to look like, and each postcard will have the name of its comic printed on the reverse as well. If you want to reserve a pack, please do go and donate. There are also some other rewards, both more and less fancy. Thank you!

 

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Rainbow Handwarmers for Sale

by Lotte on November 16, 2011 at 1:04 pm

A pair of short ribbed rainbow handwarmers, with 2cm stripes in the following colours, from cuff to knuckles: red, white with black border, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, red.

Some of those handwarmers with the PiP stripe, made in the larger size so they’ll fit both slim and wider hands.

75% wool, 25% nylon, machine washable, ribbed partly for someone’s pleasure, but mainly so they fit snugly. I don’t smoke but I do have a cat.

As before, I’ll make a comic about what I’ll do with the money, and if you want I can post a link back to your website.

Sold, yay!

It took a while because I was making a pair for a Christmas Fayre for the village in which I grew up! If you’re nearby, you should go, because there is a tombola and everything.

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Handwarmers

by Lotte on November 15, 2011 at 12:17 pm

What colours of handwarmers would you all like to see? I’m making some more rainbow ones, but maybe a bit of variation might be more interesting.

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Postcarding Adventures

by Lotte on November 14, 2011 at 8:13 pm

So, I’ve just been faffing about making some comics postcardy for that project you can donate to. In a strange turn of events, comics that are your favourites and also postcardable are not at all about polyamory. I’d be worried, but you lot voted, so I can’t argue with that, yes?

Here are the ones that work best. Cleek for the full image:

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Mx

by Lotte on November 11, 2011 at 10:24 am

You probably already know that I bang on about Mx and Misc as a gender-neutral title all the damn time.

Do you live in the UK? If so, here is a cool petition you can sign.

Even if the government ignore us in terms of making laws and things, and they probably will, it’ll be an interesting experiment to see how many people use or support the availability of a gender-neutral title. I’ll be able to say “also over 357,000 people like Mx; put it on your form, Tesco Online!” etc.

So far: 5 signatures. *cough*

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A book

by Lotte on November 5, 2011 at 8:19 pm

I am looking into getting a book uploaded to Lulu.com, as per the recommendation of the excellent and non-fictional Dr Love. It looks to be about £23, perhaps a bit more or less. I’m not sure if this is too much, but even if I’m the only one that orders one, at least it’ll be an interesting adventure, yes?

Hmmmmm.

Or I could approach actual publishers.

Are any of you published and/or experienced in the ways of publishing? Do you have any advice or ideas? Please witter in the comments, or tell me in a comment that you’d like to email. All wittering is very much appreciated.

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Strike a pose

by Lotte on November 3, 2011 at 7:33 pm

Two most excellent people have recently received handwarmers, and I wanted to show you how fabulous they make the handwarmers look, so here I am plastering some more photos on my blog! Bring it awn, I hear you cry.

Here we have Caytlin (@cvilbrandt), RAWKing out. I love the facial expression! Reminds me of Bill Bailey. A YouTube video, let me show you it.

A woman with bright orange hair, wearing glasses, poses with her fist with little and index fingers extended in the "metal" gesture, wearing rainbow knit handwarmers.

I would also like to add that Caytlin is part of one of my favourite comics, Walking on Broken Glass. Good if you like paranormal office dramady romances, yes indeed.

Also, Wardrox (twitter / tumblr) tells me that this is where the handwarmers from that auction will be until summer:

A hand resting on a computer mouse. The hand is wearing a handwarmer knit in the asexual flag colours of black, grey, white and purple.

I heartily approve! Thank you both. :) Please show your appreciation for these wonderful beings by visiting their sites and stalking their social media.

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